A Conversation with John McWhorter | Viewpoint Diversity Among Black Intellectuals
\u201cThe message that Black America cannot succeed significantly\u2026until there is a vast overturning...of the very psychological nature of being an American person...then to be a Black American person is to be circumscribed by racism\u2026\u201d In February, John McWhorter joined HxA for a conversation with Amna Khalid about viewpoint diversity among Black intellectuals and the state of open inquiry in higher education. Listen to the full discussion here on Half Hour of Heterodoxy.\nMcWhorter is Associate Professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He is the author of over a dozen books on issues including race and language. His most recent book, \u201cThe Creole Debate,\u201d was published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press. He has written countless articles and commentaries that have appeared in The Atlantic, Reason, The New Republic, Aeon, and many more. He also hosts Slate\u2019s language podcast Lexicon Valley. McWhorter is the winner of HxA\u2019s 2020 Open Inquiry Award for Leadership.\nVideo of the conversation can be found here.\nFor more HxA blogs, events, tools and resources, please visit us at:\xa0https://heterodoxacademy.org/\nCheck out our other podcast,\xa0Heterodox Out Loud: the best of the HxA blog,\xa0here (https://heterodoxacademy.org/heterodoxoutloud/).